ECE 783Motion Coordination & Planning
- Units
- 0.50
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Engineering
When it runs
- F24
- W25
- S25
- F25
- W26
- S26
- F26
- W27
- S27
Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.
This course will cover aspects of path planning, dynamic vehicle routing, and coordination for mobile robots. Topics include: 1) Path planning: graph search methods; traveling salesman problems 2) Multi-robot coordination: the consensus and rendezvous problems; sensor coverage; workspace partitioning/load balancing. 3) Dynamic vehicle routing: overview of Poisson processes and birth- death processes; path planning for tasks arriving in real-time; relation to automated material handling, mobility-on-demand.
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